Note that on Windows, getNotification currently uses a polling loop
of 1 second to check for more notifications, due to some inadequacies
in GHC's IO implementation and interface on that platform. See GHC
issue #7353 for more information. While this workaround is less than
ideal, notifications are still better than polling the database directly.
Notifications do not create any extra work for the backend, and are
likely cheaper on the client side as well.

Returns the process CPid of the backend server process
handling this connection.

The backend PID is useful for debugging purposes and for comparison
to NOTIFY messages (which include the PID of the notifying backend
process). Note that the PID belongs to a process executing on the
database server host, not the local host!